Stanford acceptance rate falls to 7% as the university receives more applications than ever

The data is in, and as the number of admission applications shows, getting into Stanford isn’t getting any easier. In 2000, the university received about 18,300 applications. In 2010, that figure had increased 75 percent to more than 32,000 applications.

Because Stanford has not drastically increased the number of students it accepts each year, only 7.3 percent of students who applied last year were accepted. In 2000, it was 13.2 percent. Continue Reading >>